Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:10:04 +0100 From: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's the difference between portupgrade and portmaster ? Message-ID: <4C055B0C.3060704@onetel.com> In-Reply-To: <20100601054216.256514a3@scorpio> References: <28736514.post@talk.nabble.com> <AANLkTimcHZOLz7AvkVil29W4qbjb9oGTDAs3IE5ygQgm@mail.gmail.com> <20100601054216.256514a3@scorpio>
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Jerry wrote: > On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 10:26:18 +0300 > Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> articulated: > > >> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 3:37 AM, zaxis <z_axis@163.com> wrote: >>> Why do we need two tools ? >>> >> Its three. Add portmanager. >> >> The answer is personal choice and we number of bikesheds. >> >> Also portmaster used to not be able to work with packages when >> portupgrade could. > > I use portmanager with the '-p' flag for when I absolutely, positively > have to insure that all dependencies are updated correctly. Neither of > the other two utilities seem to get it correct 100% of the time. Plus, > portmanmager is written in 'C' and IMHO is quicker than the other two. > > Just my 2ยข. > +1 for including portmanager in any list of port management tools, just doesn't get 'official' sanction for some reason. Chris
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